The University of the Ozarks Theatre will wrap up its 2022-23 season with three performances of “Desdemona: A Play About a Handkerchief.”
The play, written by Paula Vogel, will be presented at 7:30 p.m. on April 27, 28 and 29, in the Walton Fine Art Center’s Seay Theatre. The play is intended for mature audiences and no late seating will be permitted.
Tickets are $10 each for the general public and can be purchased are https://eaglenet.ozarks.edu/secure/theatre/schedule.aspx
Macy Foss, an adjunct faculty member in theatre at Ozarks, is the play’s director. The cast includes, Auriane Devaux as Desdemona; Kate Baptists as Emilia; and Jonathan Ezra Adderly as Bianca.
The play’s synopsis reads: “As the wrongly accused and suffering wife of Shakespeare’s tragic Moor, Othello, Desdemona has long been viewed as the ‘victim of circumstance.’ But as Pulitzer Prize-winner Paula Vogel demonstrates in her comic deconstruction of Shakespeare’s play—aligning tongue-in-cheek humor while raising serious questions as to the role of women through the ages—Desdemona was far from the quivering naïf we’ve all come to know.”